CORDES v. STATE

No. 26297.

257 S.W.2d 704 (1953)

CORDES v. STATE.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied May 13, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. E. Martin, James Hill Letts, James J. Shown, Vincent J. Licata, Houston, for appellant.

William H. Scott, Crim. Dist. Atty., King C. Haynie, Asst. Crim. Dist. Atty., Houston, George P. Blackburn, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


WOODLEY, Judge.

The appeal is from a death penalty for the offense of murder.

Appellant confessed that he killed Cleora McCord by stabbing her with an ice pick. She was found dead or in a dying condition in the bathtub in her garage apartment. There were stab wounds in her neck and abdomen such as might have been inflicted with an ice pick.

Appellant was seen to enter the apartment shortly after 7 A.M. and it was some hour or more after his car was...

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